Table Of Contents:
- Satan is real and he hates missions work!
- Satan hates missions; an accident in Batam!
- God’s grace is sufficient in a Batam hospital
Early this year a team of 4 from the Wilds Christian Camp in North Carolina, USA, came to Philippines to help us to train camp counsellors for our evangelistic camps (more on “e-camps” in later blogs).
The Wilds is the largest Fundamental Christian camping organization in US.
After 2 weeks of training in Philippines, we went to Batam, Indonesia, to look for a suitable camp-site for Indonesian youths. This camp could also serve as a site for Singaporean youths.
Our survey team consisted of the 4 “Wilds” staff, our 2 missionaries to China (V and his wife M), our missionary to Batam (Pt S), our Batam church van driver and I. As the 9 of us were about to leave the ferry terminal at Batam Center, we discovered that the back left tyre of the van was flat!
So we all exited the van, while the driver drove the van to a nearby tyre shop to fix the flat tyre.
Since we had not prayed for safety for our survey trip when we were starting our van journey, God was probably warning us with the flat tyre that we needed to pray! But we were spiritually too complacent to sense it. The success of the previous 2 weeks in the Philippines contributed to our complacency.
When the van came back we all piled in again and set off without praying. We travelled for about an hour to get to a remote beach and then entered a motorized sampan (little boat) for a 15 minute journey to the another inaccessible area which we thought might be a suitable camp-site.
After surveying the site, we left on the same sampan for our return journey. As we were about 500 meters from the shore, the motor of the boat stopped. The boat-man tried and tried to re-start the motor but failed. After about 10 minutes of pulling the starter-cord, he finally sat down in exhaustion. At that time, I said “Let’s pray!” and I said a short prayer. The boat-man got up and pulled the cord and the motor immediately started!
We entered the van and took off for our hour-long return journey – again without saying a word of prayer for safety!
God had warned us twice but were too dull to respond!
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